Open francofaa opened 7 months ago
Any update on this issue? One would think you should be able to put mathML within a table cell. Is the issue that it is within a
Just chiming in that we've run into this too, and this is absolutely legit-- there is no accessibility reason that I know of that this shouldn't be allowed. MathML is widely supported now and does not require any text or image backups; it's as valid as plain text as a header for both visual and non-visual users.
hello all, this message is generated by Deque Axe. I am in the process of updating Axe inside Ace, hopefully this will fix the misguided reporting. Regards, Daniel
Hi just as an additional follow-up, it looks like this is happening with heading elements as well. I will provide an example and open a related issue.
This is a known issue with Deque Axe, I have tried to implement missing parts in Axe's code but I am lacking some understanding of Axe's internals (plus, I started exploring this issue from a slightly older revision of the Axe codebase which was used by DAISY Ace at the time). Here is the relevant issue at the Axe GitHub repository: https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core/issues/3285
Ace 1.3.2, Ace by DAISY app
The error was Minor, Best Practice, empty-table-header with the text
The content of this
th
element wasIt appears that the MathML is being read as no text or as inaccessible text. Is this error correct? Should MathML not be used in
th
?Thank you for any assistance that can be provided.